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If you're writing Qt, getting it to work on Linux if it already works on Windows probably isn't terrible. It certainly hasn't been for the PyQt GUI program I w
by sevensor 8y ago
If you're writing Qt, getting it to work on Linux if it already works on Windows probably isn't terrible. It certainly hasn't been for the PyQt GUI program I work on. Making a working Qt/X11 program work on Windows, on the other hand -- that could be painful.
- danieldk 8y agoMaking a working Qt/X11 program work on Windows, on the other hand -- that could be painful. I maintain a Qt application for Linux/macOS/Windows, with in total ~70kloc the last time I looked. It started as a Linux application, but porting to Windows was not a lot of effort and the amount of platform specific code is very small. The painful part on Windows are some non-Qt dependencies, such as libxml2, libxslt, DB XML, etc. The port to macOS required much more platform-specific code to implement macOS-specific behavior (such as keeping the application running when the last window closes), building working, signed application bundles, etc.